##  External Dependencies

- Default etcd server is unchanged at v3.2.24 since Kubernetes 1.12. ([#68318](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68318))
- The list of validated docker versions remain unchanged at 1.11.1, 1.12.1, 1.13.1, 17.03, 17.06, 17.09, 18.06 since Kubernetes 1.12. ([#68495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68495))

access to the Endpoints API. For new Kubernetes 1.22 clusters, the `edit` and `admin` roles will no longer include that access in newly created Kubernetes 1.22 clusters. This will have no affect on existing clusters upgrading to Kubernetes 1.22. To retain write access to Endpoints in the aggregated `edit` and `admin` roles for newly created 1.22 clusters, refer to https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/29025. ([#103704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103704), [@robscott](https:/...

  
  Users upgrading from 1.18 who have cordoned nodes should set the `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers` label on the impacted nodes before upgrading if they wish those nodes to remain excluded from service load balancers. ([#90823](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90823), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Apps, Cloud Provider and Network]

 app/v1beta2 group version, because the controllers in the workloads API do not handle
 selector mutation in
 a consistent way. This restriction may be lifted in the future, but
 it is likely that that selectors will remain immutable after the move to v1.
 You can continue to use code that depends on mutable selectors by calling
 the apps/v1beta1 API in this release, but you should start planning for code

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Add warning for PV on relaim policy when it is Recycle ([#122339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122339), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Storage]

- Fixed a startup probe race condition that caused main containers to remain stuck in "Initializing" state when sidecar containers with startup probes failed initially but succeeded on restart in pods with restartPolicy=Never. ([#134801](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134801), [@yuanwang04](https://github.com/yuanwang04))...

- Fixed a startup probe race condition that caused main containers to remain stuck in "Initializing" state when sidecar containers with startup probes failed initially but succeeded on restart in pods with restartPolicy=Never. ([#134800](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134800), [@yuanwang04](https://github.com/yuanwang04))...

## Changelog since v1.29.4

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixed a bug that a pod may remain unscheduled if any PreFilter plugin returns nodes that do not exist. ([#124559](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124559), [@chengjoey](https://github.com/chengjoey)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

* set EnableHTTPSTrafficOnly in azure storage account creation ([#64957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64957), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes an issue where Portworx PVCs remain in pending state when created using a StorageClass with empty parameters ([#64895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64895), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

- Fixed a bug that a pod may remain unscheduled if any PreFilter plugin returns nodes that do not exist. ([#124765](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124765), [@chengjoey](https://github.com/chengjoey)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

## Dependencies